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Fedora 42 : cef (2026-24ed079b30)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 298443

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-24ed079b30 advisory.

 Update to Chromium 144.0.7559.109

 * CVE-2026-1504: Inappropriate implementation in Background Fetch API


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected cef package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-24ed079b30

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 298443

File Name: fedora_2026-24ed079b30.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/10/2026

Updated: 2/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-1504

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cef, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-1504